How to Create a Sales Machine

At 9am sharp our team marches in. Ambitious, energetic Amber leads the charge. She’s joined by Patrick, jovial and competitive at the same time, always finding the humor in something. They are led by Gary, our young, yet experienced copywriter, deft with a turn of phrase, as prolific as they come.

Finally, the group is organized by Jeff, our chief of operations, who keeps all of ETR’s many trains running on time on the right track each day.

Our soldiers have gathered in the War Room as they do each weekday morning in Denver. It’s time to dissect yesterday’s results, coldly killing the losers, and sending in new recruits to the front line.

It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Actually, it’s not a dirty job at all.

Selling is a beautiful thing.

Selling is the lifeline of our business.

It’s an incredibly important skill, being able to turn words into money, and that’s what our team is there to do – to sell, to persuade, to get people to take action and finally change their lives.
And that is what must happen in your business. You must create this Sales Machine, and don’t worry, you can do it on your own, with just 3 steps.

But you must always be selling.

“There is a direct relationship between the success of a business at any given time and the percentage of its capital, temporal, and intellectual resources that are devoted to selling.” – Mark Ford, Ready, Fire Aim, page 54

At ETR, we have a sales machine set-up. I call it the “CTT Machine”. Copy is created. Copy is tested. Results are tracked. Copy-Test-Track. Every day. Sell. Every day.

We have a checklist/automation system for Testing & Tracking our Copy.

Right now we are building the copy team. This is great.

But it’s only half the battle of Direct Response Marketing.

We set-up & automate (as much as possible) a good testing and tracking system to go with all of our offers.

By doing so, we’ll improve the rate at which we get feedback and our ability to optimize our offers.

This has certainly been a key to the BioTrust marketing miracle. My good friend and coaching client, Joel Marion, does a split test on everything in his marketing funnels, from the email subject line to the email copy to the email link to the landing page to every upsell. He’s meticulous.

Here’s how to model his success. Just follow the…

3 Step System to Build Your Own Sales Machine:

1) Sketch out the optimal sales flow for a product and address every item on this checklist before you launch any offer.

– email subject line
– email copy
– email link
– split test on copy/VSL page
– split test on checkout page
– 3 upsells in place using Deiss’s system for the first two (a – speed of implementation; b – done for you … or b first then a…whichever)
– split test on all upsells
– some offer on download page
– split test on download page offer

3) Run all of our offers through this checklist and optimize them. Put a tracking system in place, even if it is just Google Analytics (that’s free).

If you take this seriously, and implement a well-oiled machine, it will dramatically increase the value of your sales skills, grow your business, and give you the freedom and lifestyle you want and deserve.

But it all starts with having more structure in your life and business. That’s the paradox of success. If you want freedom, you must have more structure.

I know it will take a little extra effort to do this for the first couple of offers, but it’s worth it.

This is one of the reasons I love writing for you…because I know you will take action!

Craig Ballantyne has been the Editor of Early to Rise since 2011. He’s an entrepreneurial coach at Perfect Life Workshops, author of The Perfect Day Formula and formerly a Strength & Conditioning coach in Toronto and contributing author to Men’s Health magazine. The Perfect Life Workshop is a one-day, immersive small group workshop...

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I wanted to share my recent test results in hopes that someone else will benefit…

I have a fitness list of about 1500 guys. It’s about 3 years old but I decided to send a broadcast message to my sales page at midnight last night. Sales page has a new headline and new price. So far, two sales. Next step is to send an email to my unopens.

Then after that I might even send an email to a more established fitness sales page (TT for example) and test my results.

I’ll see how it goes.

Raza

Raza

Just reviewing my GetResponse stats…

Out of 1582 emails sent, I had a 24% open rate (381) with 11.7% clicking the link (185) to my sales page. I got 2 sales at a conversion rate of about 1.08%

Not terrible for an old, outdated list, but there’s still room for improvement.

Next Steps:

1). Send an email to all of my unopens

2). Test cold Facebook traffic to the sales page. If I can even hit a .05 conversion rate I’ll be happy.

Thanks,
Raza

Raza

Craig,

Could you please add a “subscribe to comments” feature to your comments? That way we can keep track of comments and respond to them.

Thanks,
Raza

Anthony

So what happened Raza? Have you completed the Facebook test? Any numbers? Tough gig doing direct ad to sales page, much simpler, but very tough.
cheers

Raza

Hey Anthony,

Thanks for responding.

So I sent a 2nd email ONLY to my unopens from the first broadcast. Interesting results:

I did send a 3rd email to my remaining unopens but got no sales.
This is great because it makes me less apprehensive to “annoy” my subscribers!

Sell, sell, sell.

Raza

Anthony

Hey Raza, 2 sales…nice conversion rate for a random email. The open rate shows that the list is old. Time to get a steady stream of traffic hey? You were in or are in TLB, yes? Good course. What are you working on currently?

Raza

Hey Anthony,

Thanks for the reply. So yeah, it was encouraging. It was even more encouraging to see a better conversion rate from an email to my “unopens”.

So you were in TLB? Cool. I was very active on their forum at one point.

I was wondering if we could chat via email. My email address is rimam1@gmail.com I have a list of close to 2000 people in the fitness niche and I may do an email for you because I have a feeling a lot of guys would be interested in golf tips.

Thanks!
Raza

Anthony

Yeah for sure Raza, will email you

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